Let's Just Kill This Old Guy, We Need This Bed!

Slate article about assisted suicide

The crazy-ass Dutch aren't doing it right:
"Several thousand people are terminated by physicians each year without giving consent, says Hendin. He quotes a doctor who said he euthanized a patient because 'it would have taken another week before she died, and I just needed this bed.'"

Okay... I'm all in favor of assisted suicide, especially where it concerns seriously ill people whose existence is days full of pain and misery, Michael Jackson, and people who talk on cell phones in movie theaters. But this is going a touch too far. People shouldn't be killed because you need to empty the hospital room, unless they have nice organs you can harvest. It just isn't right.

Now, where did we land on the Michael Jackson thing?